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Too hard to answer if I'm honest, give most people a lump sum of money and they will blow it fast, not many people could control themselves to spend it actually living their life they are accustomed to when working.
I know if someone handed me $10m tomorrow, I'd go buy a couple of nice $100k to $200k cars, pay off my mortgage, pay off my mums mortgage, my brothers mortgage and maybe buy them a new car each. I'd take a real nice month long trip to Asia with the wife, hitting some higher end places and letting her spend $10-20k on handbags/shoes and just enjoying ourselves. After all of that, I'd be left with probably 8.5m to live on for the next 40-60 years, very easy of course without a mortgage or cars to pay but getting out of that habit of spending what I just did in the first 6 weeks would be tough.
I don't think I'd quit this industry if I had $10m in the bank, I would probably take Fridays off all summer and golf or go on nice weekend trips. I'm far too young to be retired, maybe in 15 years but not right now.
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